From observing and belonging to a family with generational high functioning alcoholics, I believe that exposure to addictions raises the bar for identifying abuse. Abuse doesn’t have to be physical. It can be all about control, especially as related to relationships. It can be verbal, emotional and mental. It is still abuse.

To clarify: He may not be physically violent, just physically threatening and generally controlling.

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Naive as it may sound, inoculating society against the antisocial requires, at bottom, persuading people of what is palpably true: that society has value and everyone should contribute.” – Bruce Cannon Gibney, Author